[…] told several people, almost with pride, about the adoption. At Lake Point when I pulled into a service station one day, the young attendant, a former stu dent, promptly asked, “Did you really adopt […]
[…] field of restoration studies. His monthly articles in the Saints’ Herald are models of high-quality, incisive historical writing. Howard is currently at work on a narrative history of the RLDS Church. The remarks of […]
[…] in London may well have been usefully cathartic. Many missionaries felt revitalized, learning to balance work and service with prayer, study, and introspection as sources of testimony. In December 1959, a little over a […]
[…] Although his intellectual prospects were initially modest, Clark went on to an illustrious career in national public service. After graduating from the University of Utah as valedictorian, he attended the Columbia Law School, served […]
On 21 May 1839, Joseph Smith introduced an unusual entry in his journal history, writing, “To show the feelings of that long scattered branch of the house of Israel, the Jews, I here quote […]
[…] reasons are several and compelling. In the first place, author Wayne C. Booth, surely one of the most significant critics now writing in English and perhaps in any language, unashamedly traces his roots to Mormonism.
[…] Israel. Maybe I should digress and observe that Ken supports, or at least never minds, my check- writing to charitable causes. Whether or not they are Jewish charitable organizations is beside the point for […]
[…] loss of protective power? Another favorite, possibly apocryphal, story—one that I use in my classes on argumentative writing when we’re talking about “plain-folks” propaganda—is one told about former Utah governor Simon Bamberger. As I […]
[…] the circumstances leading to his 1988 resignation from a tenured professorship at BYU. Like all Quinn’s professional writing, the annotation (pp. 96-111) is exhaustive and intriguing. Richard Bushman’s pioneering article (pp. 1-17) defines “faithful history” […]
[…] a vocabulary for dis cussing spiritual abuse. While the arrangement of subject matter is confusing and the writing style verges at times on awkward, the analytical concepts and illustrations are breathtaking. The authors, David […]